 Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.  The Southern Review - Page 1251829Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...papers, there is more trenchancy, rigour, and variety. Design of the Essay on the Human Understanding. bers enquire into. The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt - 1904 - 176 pages
...eminent of them the like art of beginning happily. The Essay on Human Understanding commences thus : Since it is the understanding that sets man above...for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire commences with a short sentence : In the second century of... | |
 | Fritz Berolzheimer - Criminal law - 1904 - 348 pages
...essay concerning human understanding." Den Grund hiefür gibt Locke sofort am Eingang dieses Werkes an: „Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives h im all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 pages
...* * BOOK I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. 1. An inquiry into the understanding, pleasant and useful. — Since it is the understanding that sets man above...for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 pages
...******** BOOK I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. 1. An inquiry into the understanding, pleasant and useful.— Since it is the understanding that sets man above...for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1912 - 544 pages
...has, and Locke saw that it had, an importance of its own. His introductory sentences make this plain : Since it is the understanding that sets man above...for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The understanding, like the eye, while it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...UNDERSTANDING* BOOK. I CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION! 1. An inquiry into the understanding, pleasant and useful. — Since it is the understanding that sets man above...for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - Philosophy - 1912 - 766 pages
...CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1. An inquiry into t/ie understanding, pleasant and useful. — Since it is ^^understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible...for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice... | |
 | Sir Richard Winn Livingstone - Classical Education - 1916 - 488 pages
...rather dry and unimaginative. Locke commences his essay Concerning the Human Unders1anding thus : " Since it is the understanding that sets man above...he has over them, it is certainly a subject, even from its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into." This opening, with the afterthought, " even... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Philosophy, English - 1920 - 418 pages
...has, and Locke saw that it had, an importance of its own. His introductory sentences make this plain: "Since it is the understanding that sets man above...for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The understanding, like the eye, while it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice... | |
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